About

Armand LESECQ
Sound & Audiovisual Artist - Sound Designer - Electroacoustic Composer
armand.lesecq@protonmail.com
The Hague / Paris

Contact : armand.lesecq@protonmail.com

About

ENG
Armand Lesecq (1994, FR) is an interdisciplinary artist & sound designer currently based in Paris and The Hague (NL).
Armand’s work is focused on the relation between perception, awareness and imagination. Through sound and/or visual compositions, he guides the audience into reflective and introspective inner meanders.

He is active as an electronic musician in the experimental music field in the bends Nuits (Emilie Skrijel, Tom Malmendier, Stéphane Clor), Hyperborée (Léa Roger, Clara Lévy, Stéphane Clor) and Hourvari (Nicolas Zentz). He also works as a sound designer, sound mixer and as an electroacoustic music composer for film and dance.

He studied sound techniques, electroacoustic composition at Pantin’s conservatory (FR) and Arts at the HEAR Strasbourg (FR) and hold a master degree of the ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK & KC) in The Hague (NL).

FR
Armand Lesecq (1994) est un artiste sonore et audiovisuel.
Son travail se concentre sur les relations entre perception, attention et imagination. Au travers de compositions sonores et/ou visuels, il guide le spectateur au sein de méandres intérieurs, réflexifs et introspectifs.

Il est actif en tant que musicien électronique dans les projets de musiques expérimentales Nuits (Emilie Skrijel, Tom Malmendier, Stéphane Clor), Hyperborée (Léa Roger, Clara Lévy, Stéphane Clor) et Hourvari (Nicolas Zentz). Il travaille également en tant que sound designer, mixeur et compositeur électroacoustique pour le film et la danse.

Il s'est formé aux techniques sonores, à la composition électroacoustique au conservatoire de Pantin et aux arts à la HEAR Strasbourg et est diplômé d'un master de la ArtScience Interfaculty (KABK & KC) de La Haye (Pays-Bas).

EDUCATION

2022 Master degree, ArtScience, Royal Academy of Art (KABK) & Royal Conservatory (KC), The Hague, NL
2020 Bachelor of Art (DNA), Haute École de Arts du Rhin (HEAR), Strasbourg, FR.
2017 Conservatory diploma (DEM), electroacoustic composition, SACEM Prize, Pantin, FR. Essay about space in experimental music and the development of a High Order Ambisonic (HOA) sound spatialization workflow.
2014 BTS (two-year technician qualification diploma) in Audiovisual technics, sound specialisation, Suger, Saint-Denis, FR.

Certification
2018: Certification MAX level 1, IRCAM, Paris, FR.
2017: Audio Spatialization workshop, IRCAM, Paris, FR.

EXPERIENCE

2014-now: Freelance sound designer, sound editor, re-recording mixer & music composer.
2015-19: Full time position as sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer for cinema, TV and museums. Shaman-Labs / Commune Image, Saint-Ouen, FR.
Co-organizer of Les Soniferes Festival, Paris.

Events (selection)
Performances at Highlight Festival (Delft), Festival OFNI (Poitiers), Festival Météo (Mulhouse), Festival Jazz à Luz, Festival Bruisme (Poitiers), Festival Superflux (Tours), Festival Plage Magnétique (Brest), Forum des Arts Sonores de Bastia, Cave12 (Geneva), iii (La Haye), Le Périscope (Lyon), Le Générateur (Gentilly), DOC! (Paris), Arsenal (Metz), Mains d’Oeuvres (St-Ouen), Cité de la mode & du design (Paris), Synesthésie MMAINTENANT (St-Denis).
Collaboration works at Venice Architecture Biennale, FID Marseille, Cannes film Festival, LUFF, Chateau de Kerguehennec, Ecole d’Architecture de Versaille, Maison des Métallos, Parc de la Villette, galerie Fernand Léger...

Residencies (selection)
2023 : LIPS Lab, “Immersion et nouvelles écritures”, GRAME, Villeurbanne, FR
2022 : "Digital Arts, Sound Art & New Writings" residency at Château Ephémère, FR.
2022 : Aposiopèse, field recording and music residency with Nuits at Lieu Multiple & A veau-l'eau, Poitiers, FR
2022 : Research residency with Nuits at CESARE, Reims, FR.
2021 : Research residency with Nuits at La Fraternelle, St-Claude, FR.
2021 : Creation residency with Hyperborée at GMEA, Albi, FR. Work on spatial morphologies with an acoustic trio.
2018 : Residency at SILO with Hourvari (doublebass and electronic). On site composition in a 10m high concrete silo.

Prizes
2022 : Waag Future Lab, Art, Technology & Society for the project Phosphene
2017 : SACEM prize - Pantin's conservatory
2015 : Mixage Fou - Prix Digital Salade

Music releases
Hourvari - Concrétions, Ligne de crête, 2023.
Hourvari - Parade, various on Syrinx Music, 2022.
Tentative d'évaporation, soundtrack for a dance piece by Claire Hurpeau, 2022.
Hyperborée, Live at Météo Festival, Mulhouse, Dreieck Interferences, 2021.
Nuits, Latitudes, 2021
Armand Lesecq, Parages, Compilation #2 confinement, Dreieck Interferences, 2020.

Projets audiovisuel performatifs
2022-: Phosphène, Live AV, cinéma étendu, film pour paupières closes et dispositif sonore immersif.
2019-: Remous, Live AV, instrument DIY audiovisuel, eau, feedback, hydrophone.

Réalisation art vidéo
2023: Crêtes, clip vidéo pour Hourvari
2023: Tourner la pierre, clip vidéo pour Hourvari
2022: Tangible Window, court-métrage muet, écran transparent multi-couche.

Projets musicaux en groupe
2020-: Nuits, quartet, électronique, accordéon, batterie, violoncelle (Emilie Škrijelj, Tom Malmendier, Stéphane Clor).
2021-: Hyperborée, quatuor, électronique, violon, harpe, violoncelle (Clara Levy, Léa Roger, Stéphane Clor)
2018-: Hourvari, duo, électronique, contrebasse (Nicolas Zentz).
2022-2023: Autre Collectif Ensemble, musicien électronique invité.

Music composition
"Forgotten Ordinaries", composition audio binaural, commande de Highlight Delft Festival, iii (Instrument Inventors Initiative), Theater de Veste, NL, 2023
"Vibrant Landscape", composition pour la danse (mise en scène de Claire Hurpeau). 2022: Tentative d’évaporation, composition pour la danse (mise en scène de Claire Hurpeau), 2023
"Tentative d'Évaporation", music composition for a dance piece choreographed by Claire Hurpeau, 2021.
"Quercus", composition de la bande originale, court-métrage (réalisation de Julien Munschy, production Le G.R.E.C), 2020
"@FARRAHAM22", music composition for an interactive installation by Aude Nasr & Paul Bourigan, 100% Festival, La Villette Paris, 2018.

Audio Post-production
"Mahalla", Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, Spatial mixer, ambisonic 3D mix, directed by Carlos Casas.
"Cemetery", re-recording mixer 5.1, feature film directed by Carlos Casas, 2019.
"The Show", sound editor, series directed by Jan Kounen, produced by BlackPills, 2018.
"Quercus", sound editor & music composer, short film directed by Julien Munschy and produced by Le G.R.E.C., 2020.
"16 Levers de Soleil", sound editor, feature documentary directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff, produced by La 25e heure, 2018.
"Dans la Peau de Thomas Pesquet", cinéma 360°, 2x20min. Directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff. Produced by La vingt-cinquième heure. Prize "coup de coeur" du 360° film festival 2018. Sound editing, ambisonic and binaural spatial mix.
"Visite guidée de la Villa Cavrois", vidéo 360° de William Smith. Production La vingt-cinquième heure. Sound editing, ambisonic and binaural spatial mix.
"Still Life" d'Edouard Sautai, exhibition at "La Maréchalerie - centre d'art contemporain (Versailles)" and at "Domaine de Kerguehennec" (Morbihan). Field recording & Sound editing.
"Monumelt", d'Edouard Sautai, exhibition at "galerie Fernand Léger", Ivry s/ seine. Sound design.

Installations sonores
2023: A few seconds, installation pour chaise, microphones et boucle de retard, exposition collective "A meeting place for sounds", galerie CLB, Berlin, DE
2022: Surfaces, orchestre de plaques en acier en vibration, Het HEM, Amsterdam, NL

Software dev.
2017-now: Conception of a spatial workflow inside Ableton Live. (Touch OSC, Ableton Live, IRCAM Spat, Cycling'74 MAX.)
2022: Custom spatialisation tools, MaxforLive & IRCAM Spat, interactive installation by Sandipan Nath.
2020 : Spatial workflow conception for Tommy Lawson and Jean-Daniel Bécache. (Touch OSC, Ableton Live, IRCAM Spat, Cycling'74 MAX.)